Senior Engineering Manager, Manufacturing Software Platform

Firestorm; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision plans

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan

Equity grants

Unlimited PTO

Holiday calendar with July & December

Parental Leave

Lifestyle Spending Account

FSA/HSA

Job summary

Firestorm is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Crucible engineering team that runs the distributed production planning platform for its deployable manufacturing network. You will own execution, quality, and delivery, while shaping the architecture and deployment model across cloud, on‑premise, and air‑gapped environments.

You will collaborate with leadership in Software, Manufacturing, and Product as we scale the Crucible platform and the network it serves, with hands‑on leadership

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and shipping software, including production systems you materially designed or built.
• 3+ years leading software engineering teams with a strong track record of delivery.
• Strong TypeScript and React, plus experience with at least one backend language.
• Strong fundamentals in relational data modeling, APIs, services, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own Crucible engineering - lead the team responsible for building and operating Crucible, with ownership of execution, technical quality, development practices, and delivery.
• Stay close to the software - work with the team on design and implementation, review critical code and technical decisions, and help ship production software.
• Drive roadmap execution - turn capability needs into scoped, sequenced, shippable work and manage the tradeoffs along the way.
• Partner on architecture - work with software leadership and architecture to evolve Crucible's system design, stack, interfaces, and deployment model.
• Own system integrations - build interfaces between Crucible and PLM, ERP, quality, test, and other production systems while keeping boundaries.
• Build for the factory floor - work with manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and xCell teams to turn operational problems into product capabilities.
• Grow the team - hire, develop, and hold engineers to a high technical and execution standard.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Backend development

Distributed systems

APIs

Leadership

Production systems

Tools

Arena

Teamcenter

SAP

Job description

Firestorm is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Crucible engineering team that runs the distributed production planning platform for its deployable manufacturing network. You will own execution, quality, and delivery, while shaping the architecture and deployment model across cloud, on‑premise, and air‑gapped environments.

You will collaborate with leadership in Software, Manufacturing, and Product as we scale the Crucible platform and the network it serves, with hands‑on leadership